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Congratulations to everyone who completed the London Marathon today. We had some fantastic performances – Ollie Harradence was the first Royal Sutton runner home in a super fast time of 2.34. Next back was Russell Simpson in a PB of 2.47, whilst we had three other runners break 3 hours (Steve Marklew, Chris Taylor and Colin McAuley). Our first ladies home were Andrea Deathridge who ran 3.13 on her marathon debut and Kate McBrien who ran a PB of 3.13.

There were also PBs for Dave Bowen, Clive Hackforth, Mark Rickards, Matt Stenson and Sue Browne, with Sue knocking 14 minutes of her previous best!

Results are available on the London Marathon website here. Enter Royal Sutton in the club category and you’ll get the results for all 15 runners. Well done everyone!

On Sunday fifteen Royal Sutton athletes will be competing in the London Marathon. This is the largest ever contingent of runners from the club to run in the event.

Of the 15 runners, three qualified to race in the UKA Marathon Championship which is incorporated within the event while a further 9 athletes pre-qualified for the event by running “Good for age” qualifying times. Ollie Haradence, who has been in great form recently, will be looking to run close to 2 hours 30 mins while many of the men are looking to run between 2.40 and 3 hours. Andrea Deathridge and Kate McBrien will hope to be our first women back in around 3.15-3.20.

The first Midland Veterans Track and Field League is taking place on 1 May at Telford. A full list of events is available here. If you would like to compete please speak to Graham Felton or Nick Corker.

Royal Sutton’s senior men and women put in some great performances at the National Road Relays on Saturday. The highlight was provided by Laura Whittle who ran away from the field on the 1st leg to record the second fastest time of the day.

The women’s team ultimately finished in 36th place. This was a great result given the team included three junor athletes (Miranda Stoddart, Megan McBrien, Rebecca Robinson) and two athletes making their debuts at this event (Vici Richardson and Nikki Singh).

The men’s team was missing a number of key runners and finished in 62nd position. Ollie Haradence showed he is in good form ahead of the marathon by recording a course PB of 28.56, whilst Chris Taylor ran the fastest short leg for the men in a time of 17.00.

The full results are available here: Men’sWomen’s Photos should be available on Bryan Dale’s excellent website here in the next few days.

Well done to Laura Whittle who had a fantastic run at the National Road Relays earlier today. Racing against many of the best distance runners in the country she recorded the joint second fastest time of the day.

There were lots of other great performances. A full report with results and photos will follow.

Entries to the Warwickshire County Championships are now open (the closing date is 11 May). These are taking place on 25/26 May at Saffron Lane Athletics Stadium, Leicester. If you wish to enter, further details are available on the Warwickshire County AA website here. Relevant links are provided below: